{"id":68480,"date":"2025-11-25T01:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/68480\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T01:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:59:07","slug":"roofing-materials-plant-in-shafter-to-close-in-january-impacting-69-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/68480\/","title":{"rendered":"Roofing materials plant in Shafter to close in January, impacting 69 employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 In a WARN letter, it was announced that a roofing materials plant (GAF) in Shafter will cease operations on January 24, 2026, affecting 69 employees. <\/p>\n<p>Building Materials Manufacturing LLC said it announced plans on Nov. 20, 2025, to close the &#8220;Shater Glass Mat Facility&#8221; on Zerker Road in Shafter. All employees at the facility will be impacted, as the closure of the plant is expected to be permanent.<\/p>\n<p>AF produced a fiberglass substrate known as glass mat, which is an essential component in the manufacturing of rooftop shingles. They also offered commercial and waterproofing solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>There is no union representing employees at the facility. All employees have been notified, said a release.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2019,<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/multi-million-dollar-facility-upgrade-to-help-meet-growing-demand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> GAF announced multi-million dollar renovations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 In a WARN letter, it was announced that a roofing materials plant (GAF) in Shafter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-68480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}